Fourteen-year-old Kezi and Olus, Akkan god of the winds, fall in love and together try to change her fate--to be sacrificed to a Hyte god because of a rash promise her father made--through a series of quests that might make her immortal.

Caldecott honor book: 1989. Coretta Scott King illustrator award book : 1989.

Plucky Irene, a dressmaker's daughter, braves a fierce snowstorm to deliver a new gown to the duchess in time for the ball.

A mother and son share in the universality of the wind, which brushes past people and nature all over the Earth and provides a connection between them.